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Re: Iran Navy Harasses US Warships

Post by Atheist-Lite » Tue Jan 24, 2012 1:13 pm

Having 'quiped both sides with either harriers or state of the art missiles we sure are. This is gonna be interesting? :tup:

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Re: Iran Navy Harasses US Warships

Post by HomerJay » Wed Jan 25, 2012 10:33 am

Iranian Intelligence has be getting help from dissidents:

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And without even knowing it he was building a unique history of ships - a modern day tribute to the vessels that have been serving his country since 1945.

His collection of 432 naval vessels - which also includes 60 American ships - has been drawing huge and admiring crowds at exhibitions across the country since 1953.

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Post by Clinton Huxley » Wed Jan 25, 2012 10:43 am

I think KLR might swoon when he sees that...
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Re: Iran Navy Harasses US Warships

Post by Atheist-Lite » Wed Jan 25, 2012 6:23 pm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16728942

IMF warns over risk of Iran oil price shock

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned of a 20-30% oil price spike if Iranian exports are disrupted.

The IMF warned that if the West imposed financial sanctions on Iran, it would be tantamount to an oil blockade, and the shock to the market could be as bad as from Libya's revolution last year.

Iran produces 5% of global oil output.

Moreover, if Iran goes ahead with a threat to blockade oil exports via the Straits of Hormuz in the Gulf, the IMF said the shock could be even greater.

About a quarter of all oil produced globally, and some 40% of all oil exports - including those from Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia - are shipped through the Straits each year.

"A blockade of the Strait of Hormuz would constitute, and be perceived by markets to presage, sharply heightened global geopolitical tension involving a much larger and unprecedented disruption," the Fund said in a regular note to the Group of 20 leading industrialised countries.

(continued, buy a dozen large plastic beer barrels and fill with petrol this week?) :read:
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Re: Iran Navy Harasses US Warships

Post by laklak » Wed Jan 25, 2012 6:25 pm

Gawdzilla wrote:It would have to hit the island to do any real damage, and one wouldn't put the ship out of operation at all unless it got an amazingly lucky hit.
Yeah, but what if they use an ICBM?
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Re: Iran Navy Harasses US Warships

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Wed Jan 25, 2012 6:28 pm

laklak wrote:
Gawdzilla wrote:It would have to hit the island to do any real damage, and one wouldn't put the ship out of operation at all unless it got an amazingly lucky hit.
Yeah, but what if they use an ICBM?
They could use a small nuke in a suicide boat. They probably wouldn't get too close, however, and surprise, the carriers practice dealing with close by nukes.
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Re: Iran Navy Harasses US Warships

Post by Atheist-Lite » Wed Jan 25, 2012 6:34 pm

The Russians will give them a few specials that can't be easily traced back but are using stolen back engineered western technology? :tup:
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Wed Jan 25, 2012 6:36 pm

Crumple wrote:The Russians will give them a few specials that can't be easily traced back but are using stolen back engineered western technology? :tup:
What's wrong with a purely Sov nuke?
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Post by Seth » Wed Jan 25, 2012 6:42 pm

HomerJay wrote: For more than 60 years master modeller shipbuilder Philip Warren has been painstakingly creating an armada of every Royal Navy warship afloat, in service or setting sail since the Second World War ... out of matchsticks and wooden matchboxes.
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Re: Iran Navy Harasses US Warships

Post by Svartalf » Wed Jan 25, 2012 6:45 pm

that it woulg give everybody an excuse to seriously resume the cold war?

If Newt is the next prez, the excuse will be to nuke Moscow.
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Re: Iran Navy Harasses US Warships

Post by Atheist-Lite » Wed Jan 25, 2012 6:49 pm

I suppose we are looking at the big one the way it's all going. Lucky to have made it this far given the people who've been at the steering wheel. I'm gonna get a few cans in when it kicks off and watch the news listening to wagner, what are you going to do? :tup:
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Re: Iran Navy Harasses US Warships

Post by Jesus_of_Nazareth » Fri Jan 27, 2012 12:30 am

Given the width of the Straits the Iranians could probably shell the Carrier - or better still drop a barrage down before the US ships enter the straits - and dare them to sail through........

Or simply park a sub in the straits and wait for lunch to arrive.....
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Re: Iran Navy Harasses US Warships

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Fri Jan 27, 2012 12:31 am

Counter-battery fire would make the ranging shots fatal to the Iranian arty.
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Re: Iran Navy Harasses US Warships

Post by Jesus_of_Nazareth » Fri Jan 27, 2012 12:35 am

Gawdzilla wrote:Counter-battery fire would make the ranging shots fatal to the Iranian arty.
Yes.

But the Iranians wouldn't care. Artillery easy to replace / stockpile.....the men are expendable........and a salvo (or 3?) from 50 guns onshore won't need to be accurate to the nearest inch. Might not sink the Carrier - but pretty hard to miss......
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Re: Iran Navy Harasses US Warships

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Fri Jan 27, 2012 12:37 am

Jesus_of_Nazareth wrote:
Gawdzilla wrote:Counter-battery fire would make the ranging shots fatal to the Iranian arty.
Yes.

But the Iranians wouldn't care. Artillery easy to replace / stockpile.....the men are expendable........and a salvo (or 3?) from 50 guns onshore won't need to be accurate to the nearest inch. Might not sink the Carrier - but pretty hard to miss......
You have no idea how this would play out, do you?
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